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Dr. Joyce has been our minister, counselor and guide for many years now. She has a Doctor of Divinity in Metaphysics and founded Christ Church of Positive Living in 1978. In the early days she held church services out of her home until she was able to borrow public space for regular Sunday services. As the congregation grew she was able to rent office space to continue the ministry. Eventually she moved the Church to the location on Merritt Island, where we all enjoy our worship services today.
Dr. Joyce is a Mental Health Counselor with A Counseling Center in Cocoa, Florida. She has been working there since September 1992. She provides mental health counseling for individuals, families, couples, adolescents, and children utilizing individual group and family therapy. She counsels in the area of adjustment/personality disorders, depression, abuse, conflict resolution, self-awareness and positive growth utilizing metaphysical/regression therapy and hypnotherapy. She specializes in extensive support and self-help methods for HIV/AIDS clients and families.
Dr. Joyce has taught at Rollins College at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida from 1987 to 1988. She taught classes in Metaphysics (antiquity/present), and Metaphysics (Self-Analysis). She introduced students to a philosophical branch that treats the first three principles; including ontology and cosmology; relation of universal to particulars, and doctrine of cause and effect. She assisted students in developing effective use of Creative Laws of the Mind using techniques introducing the personal factor in daily relationships. The background in the development of self-evaluation was based on the works of Emerson, Plato, Fox, Whitman, Aristotle, and Plotinus.
Dr. Joyce was the Associate Minister of the First Science of Mind Center in Melbourne, Florida, from 1977 to 1984. She conducted Ministerial duties including worship services, prayer and meditational services, weddings, and funerals. She counseled in areas of marriage and family, divorce mediation, and personal growth.
Dr. Joyce was also the Director of a Teenage Group from 1977 to 1980. She ministered to adolescents and taught classes in positive thinking and development of self-potential.
As a teacher from 1973 to 1984, Dr. Joyce taught outreach classes and adult classes in positive thinking, self-improvement, and creative potential.
Dr. Joyce's goal today is to teach us how to use our minds so that we may live in peace and harmony with all individuals in our world. Guided by Spirit, she teaches us the Universal truth and the Law of Cause and Effect. In a previous interview, Dr. Joyce describes her teaching goals.
I teach the basic principles of Science of Mind. All people of any religion can use the principles of mind, and it doesn't interfere with their religious faith. Students are excited about learning this philosophy. Enthusiasm runs high when they realize the personal factor involved in the creation of their experiences.
The first and most important thing students must learn in order to change the undesired aspects in their life is the Law of Cause and Effect. Too many times they have been fighting against the effects in their life when they should be working to eliminate the causes. They wipe away an undesired effect only to see a similar effect pop up in its place. I teach them that changes in their consciousness will bring about the desired effects. All they have to do is learn to plant the right seeds in their consciousness in order to reap the benefits of life.
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